The Ph.D. Preliminary Exam

The written Preliminary Exam will tentatively be Wednesday, March, 2006,
and the oral that same time frame.

Sign up by clicking here by January 20, 2005.

• Information for students about the exam. Also available as LaTeX Postscript
• Examination topics. Also available as LaTeX Postscript
• Example questions from old preliminary exams.
• Instructions for the Chairperson of the Oral Committee. Also available as LaTeX Postscript
• A note about printing.

Ph.D. Student Marwan Al-Haik can smile after he passed his preliminary exam. He prepares thin film samples for transmission electron microscopy using an ion milling machine.

Leon van Dommelen